ساخت و هنجاريابي مقياس قصه عشق و بررسي رابطه آن با رضايت زناشويي

The construction and no rmalization of the Love Story Scale and its relation with marital sa tisfaction

This research was designed to construct and normalize the Love Story Scale (LSS ), and to study its relation to marital satisfaction. The statistical sample which comprised of 403 couples (primary and preparatory school studentsʹ parents) of the City of Tabriz, Iran, was chos en through random multistage clustering. This research started with a 200 item questionnaire and was preformed in two stages. In the pilot stage with a sample of 38 couples, content validity and reliability coeffi cient s (test-r etest and interna l consistency) wer e assessed . Then two 100 item questionnaires were finalized for men and women. In the final stage, the Hadson Marital Satisfaction Scale (2000) and the LSS were completed by 403 couples. The reliabil ity of LSS was assessed through Alpha Cronb ach internal cons istency coeffi cient s, its validity was assessed through criterion and construct validity through exploratory factor analysis and group differences. Result s indicated that: the LSS has acceptable psychometric properties. There is a consistency among coupl es love stories, lower similarity in couples love story profiles, in creases their marital unsatisfaction. There is a significant positi ve relationship among more prosacially and equal roles love stories and marit al satisfaction, and this case is negative about less pro sacially and more manipulative and non equal roles love stories. There is significant differ ence among men and women in 24 love stories and roles. There is a significant difference among means of love stories of either men or women. Generally, the result s were consistent with previous research . Considering found ations and limitations, LSS is a reliabl e Scale for use in counseling centers and in researches.